Bring your brushes and your paints (we’ll also have some supplies on hand) and drop in to paint with Cindy. Light refreshments will be provided for this informal open studio painting session. We’ll have a couple of different still lifes set up to sketch, paint, and snack.

Angela will demonstrate her magical methods of making acrylic paint pop while keeping edges soft and color vibrant. Watch her paint while discussing what she's doing: the working properties of paint, different techniques for using brushes, meaningful color mixes.

Acrylics are wonderfully subtle, brilliant, delicate, striking, whatever you need them to be. Angela is a master of using figurative subjects in fresh imagery. Come see her in action.

Introduction to EncausticDeborah KapoorSunday, July 17, 201612-1:30 (one session only)Free DemonstrationThis demonstration will cover basic techniques to get you started with encaustic and will give you a foundation to expand upon. This is an overview of the processes which will include preparing and fusing cradled panels, applying layers of encaustic, incising, stenciling, pouring, dipping, presenting, caring for, and transporting final works.Deborah Kapoor integrates processes like painting, printing, cutting and collage with predominantly encaustic and mixed media.

The Watercolor Portrait: From Composition to Underpainting to Technique
With Molly Murrah
Saturday, August 27, 2016
12-1:30Free Demonstration

Last fall, Molly Murrah demonstrated her technique for
beginning watercolor portraits with a colorful underpainting. Now she wants to
share her step-by-step process — from creating dramatic compositions to
executing great underpaintings to deciding on exciting and memorable painting
techniques. Join Molly for this fun demo as she shows the beginning stages of
the painting and discusses how to move to a finished
piece.

A personal palette is a set of colors that bring out
the best in you as an artist. Truly, the palette is very personal and unique to
each artist. Join Alicia Harvey as she describes how she searched for her
personal palette and offers suggestions for your own search.

Painting landscapes in watercolor can be very exciting and
exhilarating using washes, glazes, spatters and other watercolor techniques to
create trees, sky, landmass and bodies of water in variety of ways that allows
for freedom and spontaneity in creating landscape paintings. Application of light
and dark, warm and cool and transparent and opaque colors can help achieve
results that could be simple and effective simultaneously. Join us to watch a
demonstration of landscape painting in watercolor by Hamid Zavareei, a Seattle-area artist and instructor.

Express Yourself with Calligraphy
With Kathy Barker
Saturday, July 9, 2016
2:30-4:30Free Demonstration (hands on)Set aside some time to play! Experiment with Elegant Writer pens, with dip pens, and a variety of inks and paints to find new ways to express yourself with beautiful calligraphy.

A portion of this demonstration is HANDS-ON. Supplies are limited. Please call 425-643-1781 to reserve a space.

Create
engaging paintings with intriguing textures. Use brushes, palette knives and
mediums to create a varied and interesting paint surface.These techniques are
great for adding play and experimentation back into your work. All levels
welcome.

This will be a great preview of the methods Liesel will later be teaching in her weekly Expressive Oil Painting classes in our store. Details and registration at her website: www.liesellund.com